Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-26

aptitude Tor criticism is shown among
/. people who bite their nails. These peo.
le are cynical and severe, uncharitable
and bitter; they writea small. cramped,
Q ilIegible hand. The good-naiured critics
. are said to possess small, well.shaped
q nails, and their handwriting is some.
what angular.
Diplomacy has long, supple hand
and beautifully kept fiager nail. The
Handwriting Of diplomatist looks like
o snake crawling away.
= The Chinese have tinger-nails so long
- that they could write with them. Tae
% tenacity of the Chinese nail, which does
not easily break, would indicate that
they have more lime in their bones than
10 we have.
60 White hands with rosy palms, SO be-
loved of our grandmothers, have gone
n out of fashion. There are those, how.
ever. whe still prefer the pretty hand to
the brown and knotty hand. of which
our sportsmen, like gay ladies, are so
r. proud.
The fashion Of playing games with
out gloves, such as lawn tennis, archery,
= boating, rowing, ball, the habit OF
walking gloveless through the country
A. in hot summer, the exposure to the
hand, once so carefully cared for, to the
oa complexion which Shakespeare deridss
:" when he says: sShe hath leathern
hand--would think that her old gloves
were on it."
At the same time that these leath ,rn,
brown hands are fashionable and the
II palm hardened, even corrugated with
~ the callouses caused by use of the NAL
at ox,1 tha har attanfiOn 10 mid
"a to the nails, which the modern mani
'er cure cuts, polishes, roseates and adds TO
= them a gem like polish.
60 One would think, since the science Of
hs palmistry has become so favorite pas
i time, and if there be only step be-
- tween divination and prophecy, that the
40 cicating formed by an car or a ball bat
"a would confuse the lines OF long life,
ID hand fortune, one husband or more, so
~ that the old fashion of sleeping 10
= chicken skin gloves would come back
a v again.
ON A soft hand is very comforting to the
'ys sick, and O child who is ailipg loves the
u cool hand of his mother on his head. 1t
ns is marvellous poultice for his aches and
pains.
al As an object to kiss white and we'll
an kept hand is very important. The kiss
IN of respect should be imprinted on the
hand. 1t is continental fashion still
tb and might well be introduced on our
he shores. The hand is, after all, the nat
IA ural member to salute. The nerves of
touch are most highly developed in the
"A fingers, and the charm of the hand is its
10 lgraspipg POWER, which enables the giver
-. to denote every shade of cordiality, to
al vary the salute at pleasure. There is
;,h everything in the hand. IL has a Gun
ming freemasonry. If only two fingers
I'M are extended, if no prehensile thumb
~ completes the maneuyre, farewell to
cordiality. If strong hand catches a
tb weak one and give, it grip which
ii, mashes the bones, farewell to friendship.
-. Let the hand-shake be warm, cordial
and welcome-the jaste mitiea of salu
aa tation.
III The French rarely shake hands, and
only with intimate friends. They often
;.h give the left hand as nearer the heart,
-; =, fla main du ceur," they call it. On the
nc Continent the etiquette of hand-shakine
is observed with delicacy. No man
a., should assume to shake hands with a
: ~ - lady unless she extends her hand FIRST.
" 1t ia the privilege of a superior to offer q
sry hand. In q ballroom there is no shhk-
'nt ing of hands. The more pablic the place
no Of introduction, the lees hand.shaking
ne, takes place. Still. among ELUSIVE for
I eigners both hands are frequently ex.
n tended to old friends.
en' The Irish hand, among o peasantry
'en who labor from the cradle to the grave,
ga Is almost universally small and we'll
by shaped. 1t is Milesian trait; whether
potatoes, bog.trctting, poor living, polit
". ical disturbances, shillalahs and damp
climate improve the hand we know not,
gn but the Irish lass has pretty hand. No
OF matter how much they cook, wash OF
ow dig, the knuckles seldom grow to be
're large and prominent, as in the Eoglish
'os and Scotch hand.
20 The American hand 10 siuewy, and,
oy as we have observed, does not follow
ng the example of the American foot in
IN; being beautiful. No doubt the accom-.
eo plishments are somewhat trying 10 the
We hand. such as playing the harp, the
M either, the guitar, the banjo. The nails
II of musician are apt to betray him,
~, There is an eccentricity peculiar to the
'1s handwriting of executive musicians, as
lat witnessed in that part OF Beethoven
ay But this need not be attributable
", wholly to the use of the hand.
sts Chaucer commends his gentle Princess
nd for her white hand and taper fingers
ps and the cleanly fashion in which she
as dined. Nowadays the modern belle has
lr- the fnger-bowl to help her, and she can
NJ cleanse her fingers after an olive in q
'd' bowl of rose.water.
7r; 1t is o curious contradiction that
nu man takes care OF his hand as he drives,
en- en- runs, or plays ball or cricket, wearing a
Tn thick dogskin glove. The prince of
rs Wales covers his hand from SUI and
" wind, then goes to a ball with his rosy
II fingers uncovered, except by rings.
~ A young woman, on the contrary, ex.
10 poses her hand to wind, and sun, and
rain. She hardens it with tine reckle s..
us ness of a prizefig liter, and when she
&C. goes TO a ball she covers it with glove
ne This is not the way her predecessor belle
!, has done in the past ages of the world.
'st "The hand of Duchess" has passed
~ into proyerb. The old novelists al
les ways give their heroines white hands;
the poets are devoted to white hands
IN and rosy palms.
vs. Expressive hands are, perhaps, better
ne than pretty hands, and usefal hands are
IN better than either; but young girls who
re are poetry and romance combined should
sn not allow their hands to grow too brown
sn and rugged. 1t is a strange freak of
p' fashion, for if they were Joan of Arcs
"a and had to labor in the fields, they
ON would look regretsully at those brown
and callous hands. However, work is
In what you are obliged to do, and amuse-